Itou Junji Kyoufu Manga Collection - Vol. 4 Ch. 4 - Red String

[MangaDex]

 

[Meduchi]

Felt kinda dumb at times, though I guess it's supposed to be comical? Not sure, really. Loved how the guy ended up looking.

 

[alessaaa]

Operation Inchworm!

Never thought I'd read something so goofy in an Junji Itou story.

 

[Vainfire]

Lines like "Operation Inchworm" and "I find it very odd!" as well as the nice grandma nightmare definitely place this among the vanishingly rare cohort of "funny Ito stories". Not quite as nonsensical as, say, Memories of Real Shit or his cat manga, but it's up there. It's ultimately still a horror story, and slowly becoming a spaghetti monster is conceptually kinda terrifying, but the way it's presented means that it isn't quite as scary. Maybe that wasn't the point.

Note: obviously the red string can be cut, considering that's what supposedly starts this whole mess.

 

[MongolianMango]

Haha, this is as cute as scary. It was a nice twist that

Spoiler

the red string of fate was generated from being in love, and since the girl broke up with him she prevented it from consuming her